The Hobbit Movie Forum

[Gandalfs Beard]

Hmmm, given all the Stormtroopers, Bucket Helmets, and Wagnerian Film Score (not to mention numerous interviews with Lucas ), I thought it was an obvious allegory for Nazi's/French Vichy vs the Underground Resistance. I haven't read the book you mentioned Eldorion, but I know Lucas himself talks about being inspired by the events of WW2 in nearly every interview he's given. This is the first I've ever heard that he was inspired by the events of Vietnam, though it's certainly plausible that he might have also been inspired by North Vietnamese villagers fighting against the Imperial Armies of the US .

PS: HAN SHOT FIRST

GB

[Eldorion]

That's a good point about WWII, especially with design. There was nothing stopping Lucas from drawing inspiration from multiple sources though, of course.

I can definitely see a sort of "resistance" them going through the OT, particularly in light of Revenge of the Sith (and its novelization) and the origins of the rebellion from the loyalist faction of the Old Republic.

[Dunadan]

Actually now i remember it i watched a documentary on the making of A new hope ,and apparently during the first very early screening George Lucas showed to Steven Spielberg he used old footage of WWII aircraft getting shot down in the Death Star attack scene(instead of X-wings etc), obvious homage there.

[brah]

I ’m a big fan of Star Wars.